Samsung Flow

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

About this app

Samsung Flow is a software product that enables a seamless, secure, connected experience across your devices. You can authenticate your Tablet/PC with your smartphone, share content between devices, and sync notifications or view contents from your smartphone on your Tablet/PC. You can turn on the smartphone's Mobile Hotspot to keep your Tablet/PC connected.
You can also log in to your Tablet/PC with your biometric data (Iris, Fingerprints) if you register with Samsung Pass.

The following devices support Samsung Flow:
1. Windows Tablet/PC : Windows 10 OS Creators update (V1703) and June patch build (15063.413)
(Galaxy TabPro S, Galaxy Book, Galaxy Book2. Galaxy Book S, PC)
2. Android Tablet: Android N OS or newer
3. Android Phone : Android N OS or Newer
It may not be supported by some models, depending on the smartphone specifications.

* Samsung Flow will operate only on official software released by Samsung Electronics.
* Windows: Bluetooth (Bluetooth LE optional) or Wi-Fi/LAN, Wi-Fi direct

Windows 10 users can find the Samsung Flow app on the Windows App Store.
Go to the Samsung Flow webpage where you can find the setup guide:
www.samsung.com/samsungflow
If you have not updated the Samsung Flow app to the latest version, please go to Windows Store > Menu > Downloads and Updates to update the app.

* The PC unlock function is no longer provided because the Windows policy has changed.

The following permissions are required for the app service. For optional permissions, the default functionality of the service is turned on, but not allowed.
Required permissions
Location: Used to search for your phone using your tablet or computer connected through Bluetooth
Nearby devices: Used to find nearby devices and track registered devices
Storage: Used to store content shared among registered devices on an external storage device and view the stored content (~Android 10)
Optional permissions
Phone: Used to answer and decline calls to your phone on your tablet or computer
Call logs: Used to read the contact information included in the event of the incoming call when receiving a call
Contacts: Used to obtain information about callers or senders when you receive calls or text messages on your phone
SMS: Used to receive and reply to text messages to your phone on your tablet or computer
Microphone: Used to record and send the audio from your phone to your computer or tablet while using Smart View

Ratings and reviews

Really had hoped there'd be improvement after all this time. Even with auto pair on from Manage Devices, if the phone is locked then you are presented with a black screen. On PC, you have to re-enable the connection so often that it's useless. What value is it to use a different device if you have to be near enough your phone to allow pairing in the first place. Great idea, potentially killer feature that they've left half baked. Such a shame.

****Edit: usb connectivity option has been restored, this review has been updated to reflect the much better experience while using this app**** This app was really good back when it was called SideSync. Unfortunatelya few updates ago; the ability to use USB for connecting to the PC which by the way had a far superior connection quality and faster response time with regards to the user interface and was much more stable.

When it works, it's pretty good. Allows screen mirroring, which allows me to access everything on my phone. It just doesn't seem to maintain a very stable connection and when it loses the connection, you have to force stop it on the phone, and go to the task manager on the PC to kill the background process, then restart it all, just to get it to reconnect. Maybe there's an easier way, but I haven't found it. With SideSync, there was a USB connection option which was much more stable. Notifications seem to work well, when it stays connected. You can reply to text messages when you get a notification, without mirroring your screen, but if you want to initiate a message, you have to either pick up your phone, or mirror the screen and do it that way. All in all, this seems like it garners an incomplete rating. Allow me the ability to initiate texts without mirroring or picking up the phone and this would be a giant leap in functionality.

What's new

Bug fixing and Update of some features